When the Muse Strikes! is essentially a blog designed to help young people get info on new travel and culture stories from around the globe, including tidbits on technology, lifestyle, food, fashion, events, and much more. For anyone willing to know about anything social, this is the place to be!
The brainchild of Rahul Prabhakar, a full-time blogger and social media influencer since 2006, this blog is open for collaboration. Contact Rahul at prabhakar.rahul@gmail.com or +91-9958750992.

For seven years, I worked outside India. Being an expatriate gave me a unique perspective; it made me more responsive toward the issues of global awareness and cultural sensitivity. More importantly, working in East Asia rewarded me with firsthand experience of the cultural differences and their implications in both my professional and personal life.

I am in the technical communication business from last 15 years. Currently, I am working as a full-time content strategist, blogger, and social media influencer.

Earlier I worked as a Center of Excellence Head - Technical Writing at Interglobe Technologies, a global provider of integrated IT and BPO services. The company is headquartered at Gurgaon, India. Before Interglobe, I worked as a Technical Writer Specialist at Agilent India, the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics, electronics, and communications.

I joined Samsung in March 2005 as a Documentation Manager and was employed with them for nearly 6 years. During my tenure, I established a new technical publications department for Samsung Electronics India Software Operations (SISO) in Bangalore, one of the eleven Research and Development centers of Samsung Electronics Company Limited.

I then joined Lionbridge Korea as a Solution Architect from November 2010. Lionbridge is a proven market leader in globalization services. Under my leadership, Lionbridge Korea secured many work orders for their Global Contents Division (GCD) business unit from Samsung. The "Samsung bada" project alone brought over US$1 million in revenue for Lionbridge Korea.

I am a leading member of the technical writing community in India, having spearhead many initiatives to elevate the profession in the subcontinent. I own and moderate the widely popular Technical Writers India listserv on Yahoo! Groups, which is by far the largest mailing list for professional technical communicators in India.

I represented Samsung at a panel discussion on "Internationalization of the technical communication profession" at the 55th STC Summit in Philadelphia, USA (May 2008), and presented a paper on "Exploring different genres of technical writing and its allied fields" at the Sixth Annual Conference of the STC India Chapter in Chennai (December 2004).

I was interviewed by Tech Writer Voices and KBS World Radio Program (Seoul Report). Also, a correspondent for Indo Asian News Service interviewed me for an article on "Technical writing - the new black gold of India."

My blog on technical communication-related topics is titled, "When the Muse Strikes!" Refer to http://www.rahulprabhakar.com/ for more information.